The Debevoise team was led by partners Jeffrey J. Rosen,
chairman of the firm’s corporate department, and William D. Regner, co-chairman of the firm’s mergers and acquisitions
group. New York partner Lawrence K. Cagney, chairman of the
firm’s executive compensation and employee benefits group also
worked on the deal.

Verizon will pay $12 a share in the acquisition, which is
expected to close in the third quarter, the New York-based
company said in a statement June 1.

Hughes, based in Atlanta, sells products that offer GPS
tracking, communications and safety features in cars. The deal
gives Verizon a new source of growth as it faces saturation in
the U.S. market for mobile phones and land lines. Verizon is
competing with carriers like AT&T Inc. (T) and other companies such
as Apple Inc. (AAPL), which sells both devices and services.

“Connected devices are expected to be another leg of
growth,” Walter Piecyk, a New York-based analyst with BTIG LLC,
said in a telephone interview. Verizon is betting that the more
they can operate in your car “the better they can integrate
with what’s in your hand or at home,” he said.

Hughes offers voice and data connections to vehicles that
are monitored through call centers, according to company
filings. The system provides emergency services, location-based
features and vehicle diagnostics.

News

Dewey Creditors Represented by Legal Recruiter, Car Service

Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP’s unsecured creditors will be
represented by individuals from a legal recruiting and placement
firm, a car service company and an equipment leasing company,
according to a list of the three committee members appointed by
the U.S. Trustee.

Tracy Hope Davis, who oversees bankruptcies in the New York
region, listed HireCounsel, Inta Boro Acres Inc. and Fidelity
National Capital Inc. in a notice of the appointments filed in
U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan May 31. The defunct law firm
will also have a four-person committee of former partners,
including two whose addresses are care of Duane Morris LLP,
according to a separate filing.

Dewey’s Memorial Day bankruptcy filing indicated it might
not be able to pay all of its secured debts, which it must do
before giving anything to unsecured creditors. The firm
disclosed $225 million of secured loans from banks and
bondholders, to be paid mostly by collecting $255 million of
bills to clients. Analysts value those bills at as little as 40
cents on the dollar.

Topping a list of Dewey’s unsecured creditors is the
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., claiming $80 million for
underfunded pensions. Second is Dewey’s landlord, Paramount
Group, claiming $3.8 million for property taxes and May rent,
followed by Thomson Reuters, owed $2.4 million for legal
research. Former Dewey partners, including those with an
estimated $100 million of guarantees, may rank equal to, or
below trade creditors under bankruptcy law.

Dewey unwound fast this year as at least 250 of its 304
partners quit to join rivals. Now it faces a long fight to
collect money for secured lenders led by JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Dewey had more than 1,300 attorneys in 12 countries after
the 2007 merger of Dewey Ballantine LLP and LeBoeuf, Lamb,
Greene & McRae LLP, making it the biggest bankruptcy in its
business. It now has 150 employees in the U.S. to wind it down
and pay creditors.

The case is In re Dewey & LeBoeuf, 12-12321, U.S.
Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan).

Firm News

Pepper Hamilton Appoints Thomas Cole Managing Partner

Thomas J. Cole Jr. was appointed managing partner of Pepper
Hamilton LLP effective Jan. 1. Cole will succeed Robert E. Heideck, who will have held the role for 10 years when he steps
down to resume his practice.

Cole, a partner in the firm’s labor and employment group in
Philadelphia, joined Pepper Hamilton in 1996 and was elected
partner in 2000.

“Tom Cole is an outstanding choice as managing partner,”
Nina Gussack, chairwoman of the firm’s executive committee, said
in a statement. “He has served as a member of the executive
committee for six years, held the post of vice chair of that
committee, and has chaired Pepper’s associates committee. He has
a deep knowledge of and familiarity with the firm.”

Cole will report to Pepper’s recently appointed chief
executive officer, Scott Green. The firm appointed Green, a non-
lawyer, as CEO in February.

Heideck will return to full-time practice in Pepper’s
construction litigation practice. He has represented owners,
contractors, sureties, subcontractors and others in all aspects
of construction litigation.

Pepper Hamilton has more than 500 attorneys in 12 offices
nationwide.

Guy Rutherfurd, Lawyer With Family Tie to FDR Affair, Dies at 96

Guy G. Rutherfurd, former managing partner of one of New
York City’s oldest law firms whose lineage included a colonial
governor of New York, a U.S. vice president and the mistress of
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, has died. He was 96.

He died on May 27 at his home in Manhattan after suffering
from respiratory ailments, according to his son, Alec
Rutherfurd.

Rutherfurd worked more than 50 years at Morris & McVeigh
LLP, a Manhattan-based firm founded in 1862 to represent some of
New York’s founding families, from which he descended. Among
them were the Morris family, owner of large parts of Morrisania
(today’s South Bronx), and the Stuyvesants, whose holdings
included what is now the 80-acre Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper
Village, Manhattan’s biggest apartment complex.

Rutherfurd, who counted Peter Stuyvesant, the last Dutch
governor of what became New York, and John Winthrop, the first
governor of Massachusetts, among his ancestors, wasn’t one to
brag about his family’s history and connections, said Macdonald
Budd, who succeeded Rutherfurd as managing partner at Morris &
McVeigh in the mid-1990s.

Like the firm, Rutherfurd specialized in trusts and
estates. His work included establishing the New York City-based
Achelis and Bodman Foundations, of which he was a former
chairman. He also played a key role in deciding to relocate the
firm in the 1960s from 60 Wall St. to midtown Manhattan.

Rutherfurd’s mother, the former Alice Morton, who died when
he was 4, was a daughter of Levi P. Morton, who served from 1889
to 1893 as vice president under Benjamin Harrison and from 1895
to 1897 as governor of New York.

Rutherfurd’s father, Winthrop, remarried in 1920, and the
former Lucy Page Mercer became Rutherfurd’s stepmother. She
would become a historical figure herself, through her
association with Eleanor Roosevelt and subsequent romantic
affair with Franklin Roosevelt.

Moves

Two Senior SEC Investigators to Leave Agency for Private Firms

Two senior U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
investigators are stepping down this month to join private law
firms, leaving vacancies atop two units formed in 2010 in an
overhaul of the enforcement division.

Robert Kaplan, co-chief of a 75-person unit that
investigates misconduct at hedge funds and private-equity firms,
will join Debevoise & Plimpton LLP in Washington as a partner on
June 5, the firm said in a statement May 31. Thomas Sporkin, who
heads an SEC group responsible for vetting and handling tips, is
moving to BuckleySandler LLP in the coming weeks, according to a
statement by that firm.

SEC Enforcement Director Robert Khuzami enlisted Kaplan and
Sporkin two years ago as part of an effort to develop
specialized expertise and catch frauds earlier. Khuzami hasn’t
publicly announced who will fill the vacant posts.

Kaplan, who holds degrees from New York University and
Columbia University, joined the SEC in 1995 as a staff attorney
and later became a litigator in the trial unit. At Debevoise, he
will advise investment adviser clients on enforcement and
compliance matters, the firm said.

Sporkin, a 20-year veteran of the SEC’s enforcement
division, helped create the Office of Market Intelligence and
the Whistleblower Office mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act. He will
join BuckleySandler June 18, the firm said.

Edwards Wildman Adds New Litigation Partner in London

Edwards Wildman Palmer UK LLP announced that Mark Deem, a
commercial litigation lawyer, has joined the firm as a partner
in its London office. He was previously at Addleshaw Goddard
LLP, the firm said.

Deem has experience in domestic and cross-border commercial
litigation, as well as international arbitration and regulatory
matters. He focuses his practice on disputes involving data,
technology, telecommunications, and outsourcing, among other
areas.

Deem is the third partner to join Edwards Wildman’s London
office in 2012, following the addition of eight new partners in
2011.

The partnerships of Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP and
Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon LLP merged last October. The new
firm is known as Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP. The firm has 650
lawyers in 14 offices in the U.S., Europe and Asia.

Corporate Partner Joins Bingham McCutchen in Boston

Bingham McCutchen LLP expanded its technology, life
sciences and emerging growth company capabilities in Boston with
the addition of former DLA Piper LLP’s Michael Barron as a
partner in the corporate practice group.

Barron, who joins the Boston office, represents technology
and life sciences companies and advises companies, entrepreneurs
and investors in the areas of formation and governance, early-
and later-stage debt and equity financings, mergers and
acquisitions, and intellectual property matters.

Bingham has more than 1,000 lawyers in 14 offices in the
U.S., Europe and Asia.

Dewey Moves

Dewey Insurance Regulatory Lawyer Joins Manatt Phelps

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, announced that Jay B.
Martin has joined the firm’s Albany office as a partner in the
insurance regulatory practice. Martin was previously at Dewey &
LeBoeuf LLP.

Williams advises clients with regard to banking, corporate
and securities law questions, including matters relating to the
regulation of U.S. and non-U.S. banks and other lending
institutions, bank lending documentation, the law of secured
transactions, the regulation of broker-dealers and investment
companies, corporate governance and periodic reporting under the
securities laws, the firm said.

These two lateral additions bring the number of former
Dewey attorneys who have or plan to join Kaye Scholer to a total
of eight.

Kaye Scholer has 450 lawyers in nine offices the U.S.,
Europe and Asia.

Antitrust Partner Hired by Paul Hastings in Washington

She joins the firm’s antitrust and competition practice.
Her practice focuses on representing clients before the Justice
Department and Federal Trade Commission, state attorneys
general, and in federal courts in connection with mergers, civil
and criminal conduct cases, and administrative proceedings.

Moltenbrey was formerly the director of civil non-merger
enforcement in the department’s Antitrust Division. In that
position, she was the division’s senior career official
responsible for civil conduct investigations and litigation.
During her 17-year Justice Department career, Moltenbrey also
served as chief of the civil task force and as trial attorney in
the transportation section, the firm said in a statement.

Paul Hastings has added three partners in Washington and
San Francisco to the antitrust practice in a little more than a
year, the firm said.

Paul Hastings has more than 1,000 lawyers in offices in
Asia, Europe and the U.S.

Moves Round-Up

Firms Announce Hires in Frankfurt, London, Saudi Arabia

The Frankfurt office of K&L Gates LLP hired Julia Karen
Mueller as a partner in its finance practice. Mueller joins the
firm from White & Case LLP, the firm said in a statement.

David Reed has joined Arnold & Porter (UK) LLP in the
London office. Reed is an international arbitration lawyer and
was previously a partner and head of the London international
arbitration practice at Shearman & Sterling LLP, the firm said.

Locke Lord LLP has expanded its global insurance and
reinsurance practice in London with the addition of two lawyers
in the insurance and reinsurance industry. Partners Damian
Cleary and Gavin Coull have experience in dispute and coverage-
related aspects of non-marine and non-life property and casualty
underwriting and claims. They joined from Steptoe & Johnson LLP,
according to Locke Lord.

Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP announced that Sean D.
Jordan, previously the principal deputy solicitor general in the
Office of the Attorney General of Texas joined the firm as a
partner in Sutherland’s office in Austin and will co-lead the
firm’s appellate practice.

Cross-border mergers and acquisitions attorney David Gitlin
has joined Greenberg Traurig LLP’s Philadelphia office in the
corporate and securities practice as a shareholder. He was
previously a partner at Blank Rome, LLP, and the head of its
Israel Practice, the firm said.

Greenberg also announced that Alais L. M. Griffin has
joined its Chicago office as a shareholder in the litigation,
transportation and governmental affairs practices. Prior to
joining the firm, Griffin served as a political appointee in the
U.S. Department of Transportation for three years.

Eversheds LLP, in association with Mohammad Al Dhabaan, has
appointed Muhammad Arif Saeed, as a partner in its Saudi Arabia
office. Muhammad joins the firm from Al Tamimi & Company where
he was a partner responsible for corporate and commercial
practice for over four years, according to Eversheds.